More fuel to add to the BCS fire.

While this is going to grow on this board into some dumb Ohio State thing; I believe it's just the popular BCS conference front. Whether it's Ohio State, Florida, or any other BCS school, this is further proof that they are feeling the pressure of schools that can compete on their level and working to push them (or any other non BCS school) out of the way AND...hide behind academic integrity to fight a playoff system.

Beyond this, the fact that the BCS can even protect the Big East and ACC and the bottom feeders of their own conferences is ridiculous.


 http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5845736

I just read that same article.  

I had to laugh at Gee's 2007 example of why the current system works and how Boise and TCU don't play a tough enough schedule.  In the final rankings of 2007, Ohio State had the 53rd hardest schedule, and that was after they added LSU to their schedule (who ended the season with the 11th hardest schedule.)  

SOS as it stands now:

Boise: 73
TCU: 68
Ohio State: 59 

TCU and Boise State both responded with this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FucbvoFFy0

Comments like this from leadership in the Big Six and journalists from ESPN (lol) lead me to draw a parallel to racial segregation. The BCS claims there are 11 BCS conferences. Ohio and the rest of the little sisters of the poor are alleged to be equals to their big brothers in the eyes of the NCAA. However, the AQ, non-AQ debate comes off more like the Jim Crow Laws than an efficient method to allocate BCS bowls.

Until this year I didn't care about a playoff system, I was happy with the opportunity to take on a Big Six team in a bowl game. But now that bowl officials can select a 6-6 AQ team over an 8-4 Ohio, Miami, Toledo, ect, I can't be satisfied by that any longer. How can they make us drink from the water fountain that is the BBVA Compass Bowl only to ask us to step aside for an overpriviledged, underachieving AQ team?

I'm fine with things being unfair in life and in sports, it is what it is. But every once in a while things become so unfair that the system needs to be re-evaluated. Sometimes it takes the entire weight of the minority, the help of the privileged, or a miracle to make things change.

Boise State could be our miracle. Piss off Gordon Gee, Go Broncos.

Gee proves himself to be a perfect fit and leader for Tosu: Classless, Ill-Informed, Isolated, Geeky, Not an alum and Wrong.  
 

And this confirms why I cannot stand to be in the same room with sidewalk alumni of this clown institution. Thank God I made a better choice.

After reading Geeks comments, I am confused as to how "honor" and "integrity" are associated with that dump. Just my opinion so don't take it personal.

+1 to Boise President Bob Kustra: " It's easy for presidents to to talk, but ask the AD's when's the last time that they seriously entertained taking requests or inviting Boise State to (play them) ."

"If you're Boise State or TCU, they're going to want to steer way clear of you."

Step up Geek or step out.

More talk on Gee and how his views on the BCS and no playoff could be anti-OSU/Big Ten:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-bcsosu112410

One nagging little thought on Gee's comments.  He mentions simply going back to the old bowl system.  If the non-aq's push too hard, and start throwing around lawsuits what's to prevent the aq conferences from scrapping the bcs and going back to the way things were twenty years ago?  Sure, the rest of college football could have their playoff, but do you really think anybody, any television networks, any corporate sponsors are going to be there if all the big boys are out and playing in the bowls?

Another alternative is they could raid what they want from the Big East, then pull out of and form their own alternative to the NCAA setting up their own playoff.  As they're no longer part of the NCAA, there would be no collusion in keeping other schools out.  The NCAA is a voluntary organization.  Little schools would have no more right to demand membership in the aq schools alternative than they do to demand membership in the Big Ten or SEC.  They'd just simply say other schools can form their own playoff system and let the market decide where to allocate customers and dollars. 

Absolutely disagree.  BCS payouts are walking around money to most BCS schools.  After paying expenses and splitting a BCS payout, a Big Ten team (with 2 BCS payouts) gets slightly more than $2MM.  The rosiest scenario for a playoff that I've read says it will generate $400 million.  Split 120 ways, that bumps it up to $3,.33 million--before expenses and not counting any conference offices that will get a cut.  In either scenario, that's couch cushion change to an osu, Texas or Florida.  B10 teams each get $22 million in television money.  A big time school nets more with one home game than they do with a double bcs bowl payout.  The pot of gold that the aq schools are protecting is not in the bcs.  It's in their television contracts and ticket sales.

My biggest problem with Gee's statement is that the sheep in central Ohio are buying into his "murderers' row" analogy for an o$u's schedule when compared to Boise State's. I've heard it on the radio and while talking to buckeye fans.

Most sports fans, I would think, picture the 1927 Yankees when thinking of Murderer's Row. This was a lineup that included Ruth (60 HR, more than any other team that year, and 164 RBI), Gehrig (47 HR, 18 triples, 175 RBI), 4 players hitting over .337, 4 with more than 100 RBI, etc. . . A lineup with great hitters that opposing pitchers feared and lost sleep over the night before a start.

Using this analogy, who on the buckeyes' schedule is similar? I would think only Wisconsin. Another possible big 10 team would be Michigan St, but the Spartans were not on osu's schedule this year. Their best non-league opponent, Miami, finished with 5 losses. Not to mention that osu played 8 of 12 games at home.

Hardly a "murderers' row." Perhaps leaning closer to playing "little sisters' of the poor"?

Sagarin 2010 Strength of Schedule ratings:

Ohio State - #64
Boise State - #62

Your posts are a joke, they have been for a decade, they will continue to be.